Washington - Google revealed plans for a class of wireless devices to work on soon-to-be-vacant television airwaves on Monday.The company sought to ease worries that this might get in the way of wireless microphones or television broadcasts.

In explanation filed with the FCC (Federal Communications Commission), Google Inc summarized plans for low-power devices,which make use of local wireless airwaves for accessing the”white space”between TV channels.One of the Google official named the plan as” Wi-Fi on steroids or Wi-Fi 2.0.”"The airwaves can give enormous social and economic gains if efficiently used,”the Internet leader said in its comments.

In the long run this set of Wi-Fi devices might give data transmission speeds up to billions of bits/second,which is far greater than the millions of bits/second to be had on most of the existing broadband networks.People could do things like watching movies on wireless devices and other things,which are at present difficult on slower networks, said Rick Whitt of Google’s Washington telecom and media counsel.The white-space airwaves might become accessible in February 2009,when television broadcasters change to digital signals from analog.Rick Whitt said that he is expecting devices that make use of white-space spectrum to be available by the end of next year.

Google’s Shares rose 6.3 percent to $460.91 accompanied by a sharp increase in U.S. stock markets.

Google foresee the white-space spectrum as a likely place for operating a new class of wireless devices and phones based on Android,software from google,which a number of important equipment manufacturers have planned to use for building Internet-ready phones.

Google said that it stands to gain when people have easy access to Internet.The main business of Google’s is to sell online advertisements while people carry out Web searches.The filing with FCC happens less than 2 weeks after Google rival Microsoft Corp’s co-founder Bill Gates recommended the agency to ease up the white-space spectrum so that it can be employed to expand access of wireless broadband.

Google and Microsoft are among the group of technology companies that includes Intel Corp, Hewlett-Packard Co,Dell Inc and Philips Electronics who has been asking the Federal Communications Commission to permit unlicensed use of white-space spectrum.

Makers of wireless microphones and U.S. broadcasters are opposing the idea, as they fear that the devices could cause interference.The Federal Communications Commission is currently testing equipment to find out whether the white-space spectrum can be used without getting in the way of television broadcasts.

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